Fine structural and cytochemical analysis of the processes of cell death of oocytes in atretic follicles in new born and prepubertal rats

Apoptosis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-37

  Ortiz, R ^a   Echeverria O M ^a   Salgado, R ^a   Escobar, M L ^a   Vazquez Nin G H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autophagy; Oocyte; Ovary

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PHAGOSOME; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LYSOSOME-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OOCYTES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31444456348     PISSN: 13608185     EISSN: 1573675X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10495-005-3347-0     Document Type: Article

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